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Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:The Duke in Glasgow program begins with a week-long trip to London, with visits to Parliament and opportunities to experience some of the cultural riches of the city.The trip to London was a great introduction to our time in Glasgow studying British politics. It was especially valuable...
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Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:My semester abroad in England has changed the way I think about America. Living in Brighton was an amazing eye-opener to just how limited the typical American's line of vision is. Because it has the highest concentration of gay people in the United Kingdom, Brighton offered a...
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Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
This past summer I was given the unique opportunity of participating in the Duke in Flanders summer study abroad program. Under the guidance of Professor Hans J. Van Miegroet, we studied visual culture in the Greater Netherlands and its underlying historical and socioeconomic assumptions from the...
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Major: ICS
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
In the summer of 2009, I had to opportunity to participate in the Duke in Rome program! I had a wonderful experience. After the four weeks were over, I felt like I had really seen everything Rome had to offer, from ruins to churches to museums....
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Major: Religion
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
In Spain, I knocked on the door of fluency, and was almost let in. I argued with Cervantes (he won). I attempted communication with grocers, street musicians, homeless people. I learned to crave gazpacho at every hour of the day. Traveling, it seems, is not just...
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Major: ICS
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
From the moment I stepped off the bus in Oxford's Gloucester Green station, I knew that I was in for a fantastic experience. The town buzzed with life as tourists, shoppers and scholars snaked their way through the narrow streets and alleyways. I could feel the...
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Major: Political Science
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
This past summer I had an amazing time in Spain with the Duke in Spain program. Besides learning more about Spanish literature, art, and history in my classes that I took, I had an experience of a lifetime. While staying with a host family in Madrid,...
Credit: Shannon Beall
Major: Psychology and Spanish
London Drama Students with Paul Ready and William Houston
Students on the 2009 Duke in London Drama Program with Professor Clum (back row, third from left) leading British actors Paul Ready (front row, third from left) and William Houston (back row, third from right) after Shakespeare scene presentations....
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London Drama: Students with Sir Ian McKellan
Students on 2009 Duke in London Drama Program getting Sir Ian McKellan’s autograph after a performance of "Waiting for Godot" starring McKellan and Patrick Stewart...
Credit: London Drama Staff
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office,
This summer was one of the best summers in my life!
Living in Beijing was a series of adventures and surprises - mostly, I am glad that I had an opportunity to live in Beijing this year. I could tell that China is now at very...
Credit: Jasmine Kim
Major: Psychology and Public Policy Studies
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Bitte, how do you do laundry here?
Let's be honest. You can visit Berlin any time. When you do, you can probably visit the Altes Museum (which I am sitting in front of in this picture), wander around Potsdamer Platz, listen to a concert in the...
Credit: Jessica Nicholson
Major: Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office,
Duke-in-Greece was an amazing, worldly experience. We spent the first three weeks traveling around the country by bus and ferry, stopping to visit many famous sites of the ancient world. The final week was spent on a large sailboat that cruised through the Aegean and docked...
Credit: Emily McClintock
Major: Public Policy
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Duke-in-Greece was an amazing experience. We took an Ancient Greek Philosophy course with Professor Michael Ferejohn while traveling the country and visiting some of the most notable ancient sites in Western history. We visited the site of the Oracle at Delphi and the Acropolis in Athens,...
Credit: Alexandra Villasante
Major: Philosophy
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Of all the memorable times in Australia this summer, one of the best was our stay in Daintree National Park in Queensland. Our few days there were loaded with exciting activities such as sea kayaking, horse riding, bushwalks, and my favorite, snorkeling on the Great Barrier...
Credit: Alice Fan
Major: Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
It is impossible to pick one highlight of Duke in Madrid. The whole experience was unbelievable. I made great new friends, improved my Spanish skills 100-fold within a semester, met incredible people such as my host family and the DIM directors and professors, and learned a...
Credit: Lydia Chen
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